Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Chain Attack Guide
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- Chain attacks are pretty cool in this game and have a lot of interesting aspects to it that can make it very strong if understood properly. I hope this video can help you understand it better! Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.
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Apparently, there's some audio issues on mobile? Some people are able to hear fine and others not so maybe just wait a bit and see if it auto fixes itself.
I was able to download the video to my phone and then it worked fine
Mine fixed itself on mobile after a few retries. Worth it for your amazing Guides. I'm a Long time fan! Keep it up!!
I've been getting the error message "No Stream, Tap to retry" on mobile but it seems to be working for me now. Pretty weird!
Very informative video btw! This just made chain attacks so much fun! I wish the tutorials were this good...
Mines fine, likely one of the resolutions has a corrupted audio issue
It's fixed, ty! :)
I just realized that Taion has the highest amount of TP because he's the Master Tactician. Meanwhile, Sena and Lanz are the ones with the least amount of TP, implying that their kinda stupid. And I love that
those 2 poor mudder....
Cap'n has 10 TP
Xenoblade 3 party members ranked by functional brain cells, apparently
1) Taion
2) Noah
3-4) Eunie and Mio
5-6) Lanz and Sena
[SPOILER]
His mentor and former commander, the hero Isurd, has the highest TP at 40 AFAIK.
This makes perfect sense
One thing this game would seriously benefit from is a loadout feature where you can save your builds for different situations rather than spending so much time reshuffling gems, skills, classes and accessories.
That would be great.
I'm almost certain loadouts are saved based on your role, but otherwise yes, an actual loadout management would be nice.
@@sinteleon Yeah, currently it does save your role but I was more referring to a whole team setup.
Just three saveable slots So we can have our perfect team setup for fighting hard bosses, perhaps one for levelling up/training classes/exploring & one for defence or a perfect team setup for combos.
Yeah, I dont even care the accessoires ! These are just random on my characters.
@@megaman1806 Shouldn't be three, it should be 99 or more, easily. Literal bytes of data could save entire party setups with how few options exist in the game relative to the amount of values a single byte is capable of holding. Storage space wouldn't be an issue so there shouldn't be such a low limit.
Xc1 : extra round with good ol power of frienship.
Xc2 : extra round with making bubbles and bursting them with correct element.
Xc3 : extra round with, saving, managing, limiting, breaking, and finally returning the numbers.
Wow, Chain attack become more complicated each game isnit?.
in xenoblade 4 whenever you start a chain attack you have to play through the entirety of xenoblade 1 and the longer it takes the less damage you deal
Yet, this iteration of the chain attack is my favorite of the three. One's was the most difficult for me to use; and two was fun, but rather tedious to set up.
@@ricardorunos9782 Yea in 1 and 3 clicking the chain attack button is practically no drawback while in 2 in order to get the most out of the chain attack you have to set it up first
@@musique-ef3rz Oh wow this ending is actually pretty interesting, oh the chain attack’s done. What do you mean only 20k damage???
We're going to be doing calculus for the chain attacks in xc4
Throughout a couple of hours of me experimenting with them, it went from "random bullshit, GO!" to "Alright, I've planned five steps ahead to perfect this chain"
I think this will be me 😂🤣
Too real
I'm in the random bullshit. I try to plan something but despite maximize XP from Elit monster.
Yeah, it really is
Dude the characters move automatically. Combat in this game is even more disgusting than the gamecube graphics. 90 euros to watch anime on my switch
My first couple of chain attacks were hot garbage, so I'm glad to see this guide coming around just as I've gotten to the point in the game where I unlock them.
lol I was in the same boat I just finished chapter 2 and saw this video pop up
Yeah but after a bit it felt like I was close to almost having an infinite change attack combo, mostly because one character gets a 95 almost constantly.
Same, but I learned through experimenting and unlocking more fusion art slots.
One note worth adding, while positional arts get their bonus no matter what in chains, you still have to be standing in field effects to get their benefit. So if your party has any field placement arts that can be beneficial during a chain attack, consider using the Follow Leader command to group up before starting it.
Oh snap that is a good idea
There's something important here that wasn't really gone over, and that's the damage modifier. Don't really blame Enel, as it's even more complicated and required some digging for me to figure out. Here is a brief explanation:
-Hard Mode effectively halves your damage mod gains, so if you're playing on Hard and are wondering why you can't hit that 1000%+, there's your reason
-You get an extra mod bonus for reaching Bravo and especially Amazing
-You get a bonus for using "Special Pairs." This means either using the Order character's Ouroboros partner, or matching a Hero character with their Inheritor (e.g., using Eunie while either Taion or Ashera are giving the order will give a damage mod bonus, and vice versa)
-Most mod bonuses are semi-random, but getting Special Pairs increases their min/max range
Hopefully that made sense. This game is crazy deep and I love it for that!
12:21 I like how, during an Ouroboros Order, the Interlink duo use some glitchy-looking platforms to walk on the water, instead of being submerged; always looks so weird, but I guess they had to shoehorn in _some_ way to make them use the same animations as if on land...
Wait, those were intentional? I thought my game was glitching out! I saved everytime I saw that after the battle.
I didnt realize it automatically gave you the positional effects regardless of where you were standing, I was getting to the point of swapping to whoever was swordfighter and positioning to the side or back before activating the chain attack to try and force those. Good tip.
Some corrections: the random selection of characters takes from ALL used characters, not just characters used in a round. So unless you got back all your characters in the first round (By using Ashera), you likely have 5 characters used in the second round, of which only 2 would be attackers. It's very possible to get unlucky and only get back healers and messing up your chain.
You can't get back a character that's already available, and in this case he was getting 2 characters back out of 3 unavailable characters, guaranteeing an attacker.
THANK YOU, I love the combat of 3 but then they made chain attacks so much more complex and I couldn't get more than 110% TP
Now we need to hear each characters best build for each Class.
We’re counting on you Enel.
There’s ONLY like
[a lot]
Of options
I think everyone is equally good at the classes, difference is only, how long it will take them to lvl this class
The guides will probably be best characters on each class instead of best class on each character.
From my testing, everyone has slight but important stat differentials, up to roughly +/- 10% from a 'base stat' you could call it. I tested this around level 40 with everyone on level 10 Swordfighter, Zephyr, and Medic Gunner to make sure the relative stats were the same on every class.
HP: Lanz > Sena > Noah > Mio > Taion > Eunie
Attack: Sena > Lanz > Noah > Taion > Mio > Eunie
Healing: Eunie > Taion > Noah > Sena > Mio > Lanz
Dexterity: Taion > Noah > Mio > Eunie = Lanz > Sena
Agility: Mio > Eunie > Noah = Sena > Lanz > Taion
My main takeaways are that Eunie should always be a healer and Mio always a (dodge) tank, but aside from that it really seems quite flexible. I'm quite interested in trying Taion as a Jaguar at higher levels because of his surprisingly insane Dexterity and high starting TP for Chain Attacks.
@@MiaTyrnfae Agreed, while it’s true they can equip each other classes there does appear to be some differences in how their stats are. For Dodge Tanks Mio is the best at it but I am curious about what you mentioned of Eunie,since atm I have her as the Full Metal Jaguar class and she seems to be doing okay numbers. Though I haven’t fully tried out this one yet on the others like with Mio’s class.
It's so nice to see Enel back at it like a kid in a candy store. Loved your content for XC2 and I can't wait to find the crit Mythra of XC3
In terms of dps imo, it's gonna be power recharge stacking from what I've seen. Any character w/ Cross Impact just gets the dps of an interlink in base and then some
xc3 is not 1% of how good xc2 was . xc3 is by the numbers safe jrpg game
the game is a major failure . the author censored all controversial elements of xc2 and made a boring by the numbers jrpg... bland character , story , sound and environment.he wanted a serious tone but every 5 seconds an anime trope break the immersion... the game is an average jrpg and it will kill this series
@@gamesthatmatter9374 please tell me this is bait lol
@@gamesthatmatter9374 how the fuck did you manage to be the most annoying person on a comment thread under an enel video that’s fucking IMPRESSIVE
bro really went “this is worse than xc2 because (describes every flaw xc2 had that this game fixed)”
@@gamesthatmatter9374 You can just say that you think there's not enough boobs in the game.
I've just unlocked the chain attacks myself, so having another deep comprehensive guide was definitely helpful. In some aspects it's kind of like a slightly less complicated version of Xs overdrive, but there's still a lot of depth. I think I'll be definitely referring back to this guide though in the future. Thanks for your hard work, really appreciate the guides 😁
To me it's overdrive who is simpler.
I understood the overdrive of Enel with one video. Chain attack in 3... I still try to understand.
And this is why we have a chain attack theme now.
Been refreshing your channel every hour since yesterdays combat video. Great guide as always thanks!
Was waiting for a guide from you! Good to see you're back with more guides! Looking forward to more XC3 content from you!
Edit: I hear the video, I don't know what these other comments are talking about
Good to know, I was basically doing the exact same set up so far. You single handedly helped me understand and fall in love with Xenoblade 2, so thanks man.
Have been watching since your XC2 guides and these have been even more useful! Thanks and keep up the hard work I appreciate you
I needed this because for SOME reason after I did sorta decent on the tutorial my other chain attacks got worse the more I tried em. Def using your guide for fundamentals while seeing if I can maximize it even more!
As much as chain attacks in this game got me thinking "Oh, well time to spend the next couple minutes watching cutscenes." at times, there's one thing I absolutely love here: this is the first Xenoblade without any QTEs at all. I couldn't believe it at first. Saw the shrinking circle between rounds and just started pushing buttons like they'd do something for a bit, even.
Good riddance.
Bro all of these chain attacks just TOO DAMN LONG. Especially on hard mode this shit drove me insane. Just because of this and lack of build variety in the late game (excluding awesome Soulhacker), I find XC3's combat slightly inferior to XC2's blade system. The game's story was also incredibly basic and barebones. The ending left me with this discontent and disappointment. This was a good game. But it could have been SOOO much more. Easily my least favourite in the trilogy
Hey that's true... No QTE! I don't think they added to the experience imo.
Honestly I'm glad there are no QTE. Never liked them in the first place.
@@Arda-dq4rt
Just in case, did you know you could end a chain attack early? I do agree it takes long to finish, but I only really use it when I'm taking on a tough foe, or I'm in a tight spot. If it's not unique and just a regular mob, I end it early after I kill it. Not sure if that's an option in XC2.
The world truly has entered a great xenoblade guide era!
Thank you so much Enel! I actually gave myself a headache trying to understand chain attacks from the game's tutorials. This was immensely helpful!
I just discovered you today and I've been on a very enjoyable binge of your videos. Thanks for the brilliant, easy to follow content!
Okay now I’m waiting for each class guides. Given how diverse and unique each class can be, I’m excited for you to get in depth for us.
This helped a lot. I wasn’t paying attention to the gauge in the bottom right and was questioning the length of my chain attacks. Great video.
Everything I'm seeing on this game is just amazing. Super excited to finally get to it! I finished Xenoblade 1 a little over a week ago, and I'm making my way through the relatively early game in Xenoblade 2 (just got Merc Missions). So glad I finally gave this series a shot because I'm just loving it, and the combat seems like it gets better and better with each entry. Appreciate the guides, Enel!
Was waiting for this! Thank you so much. I was just doing chain attacks and didn't really get the usefulness of the Healers' 99 cap.
It will never surprise me the amount of mechanics and nuances monolith will hide in their combat
Man the work you do in all these videos are amazing, helped me back in xc2 and definitely helped me here. Truthfully grateful my guy thank you for all your content!
Awesome video! I was trying to figure out what triggered an Ouroborus order, and it turned out to be so simple. Thank you!
I’ve watched this video 5 times and I’ve practiced chain attacks with several different lineups (only in ch.3 atm) and at level 24 I was able to put out 270,000 damage with a 4 stage chain attack. You’re an absolute legend man. Love the videos, guides, content, just all of it. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep watching and eventually I’ll quit exploring and move on in the game 😅
Now this is definitely the video I need. Chain attacks are fun and I think I sort of understand how they work but not enough to fully take advantage of them
This is a REALLY helpful video! I love the new chain attack system, but it's been a bit rough to learn, especially since I just recently got Ouroboros Chain Orders and had no idea how the Faiz to activate them! I'm sure with a bit of practice now, I'll be dishing out some insane numbers! Thanks a ton, Enel!
Great video! I think I'm going to have to watch it a few times during my playthrough.
Having gotten a little further into the game with more classes and uroburos attacks, I have to say these are by far my favorite in the series. 1’s felt too random and poorly communicated. 2’s we’re fun, but trivialized a lot of the main game because of how easy they are to pull off. With 3, it’s just perfect. Very clear UI, requires strategy during the chain attack rather than just before it, doesn’t require never reviving a party member, and DPS that’s great, but not full burst levels of insanely busted. Not to mention the tutorials for it were so good that the only thing I was confused about was the ability to choose a character.
While it’s a barrage of tutorials in the beginning 3 does a lot better at communicating the mechanics to the player more than 2 imo
@@justinx3537 Yeah. Plus you can supposedly turn tutorials off. Only major issue is how restrictive they are. What if I want to put a different piece of equipment on my party member? Why do I need to go through the slow process of doing one action for every single party member? It’s weird.
@@justinx3537 if you played 2, you basically don't even need these first tutorials for 3's combat. It was literally pick up and play for me due to how much of it is the same. The waiting for recharge is still excruciating as I knew it would be early game but at least unlike one, the waiting for recharge starts eventually takes considerably less time. You have a way to speed up the auto attacks with a gem but I really wish you didn't need an item just to do that. Maxing out a class to enable faster animations makes so much more sense.
Awesome video as usual. The cap being removed makes me super excited for what kinds of enemies they have planned for end game/dlc. Maybe they can make some truly scary bosses
Back at it again with the XC content. I have no doubt the content will be just as informative as they were during the XC2 days. Looking forward to future uploads
Keep these Guides Coming Man they're incredibly well done & detailed.
I’ve only done a few chain attacks and I haven’t been the best with them, thanks for this video.
Later in the game now and I feel like a chain attack master. Able to constantly beat up my enemies while reaping the rewards of over killing
Perfect timing. Just unlocked the mechanic a few minutes ago.
The music alone makes this peak gameplay, before even going on to how satisfying it is to rack up damage.
So good. I mostly got it all by experimentation but there was some details I was missing. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for the guide! I just unlocked Chain attacks, so I'l have to review things once I'm more comfortable with the system. This is a very interesting new system~
This games chain attack system makes the first 2 games look like a 1+1 equation holy crap, thanks for the guide I probably would have been completely lost otherwise
Flash fencer is a really good class to give everyone powercharge if you pair the share buffs art next to it in agnus arts. Since the art on the right goes first, the powercharge art goes then immediately shares it with the party every time you do it as a fusion (so every time you use it in the chain attack)
It is about time. Love your videos!!
I've been waiting for this!
You're a true G and a pillar of this community, Enel!
Proud to say I figured out quite a few mechanics here just by experimenting or the tutorial gave me. The positional thing is such a good QOL thing, especially with Noah's side break art.
Can't wait to see an in-depth video from you regarding the viability of all the classes! I trust no one else lmao
This breakdown is so helpful! Thank you!
What I would recommend for beginners to chain attacks is definitely Isurd, given he can garuntee a Bravo rating no matter what if he finishes a chain order, it’s a great crutch for people to use to get acquainted with the mechanics and he joins relatively early compared to Ashera and Segiri, other good chain attack heroes.
He also has a very high base TP at 40, and can be restocked unlike Ashera. He's really never a bad pick for chain attacks.
And then there’s the postgame Attacker hero.
She…
has a Chain Order that does the same as Eunie’s, dropping enemy Ether Defense by 50 percentage points;
and has a Heroic Chain that makes it possible for another character to act even if she made the TP gauge exceed 100%.
not to mention you’ll be listening to a banger battle theme.
Isurd is great if you want to use the same character every round because you can Bravo in two actions and get both back. This comes with the benefit of keeping TP low for the rest of the party, so you can use them all without going over in the final round when damage ratio is highest.
This game’s chain attacks might lack the goofy little QTEs (for better or worse) but I think these have become my favorite in the series by far. Just when I think this mechanic couldn’t be more satisfying they top themselves yet again, in true Xenoblade fashion.
The QTEs in XC2 were pointless cancer. Annoying, repetitive, and boring.
The only thing I miss is a random voice out of nowhere screaming things like MARVELOUS!!! and AMAZING!!! each time a combo happens lol
@@Tetragramix You know you could turn those off if you wanted to, right?
@@lucasdellamaggiore
SAY WHAT?! That an option under settings, or is it tied to DLC?
Thanks for the guide been waiting for someone to explain this game's systems since it is my first xenoblade
Really happy to have a guide as I have been really fumbling through chains. Going to wait until I have access to Ouroboros chain to finish for spoiler reasons but the first part is definitely super useful.
Enel, you're a life saver. Was just about to look it up online about how do Chain Attacks work in this game. Why did they have to change it after I finally figured out how it worked in XC2 lol? Gonna watch this later
OH YEAH BABY
Thankfully the UI is 50x better than 2’s (seriously, I love 2, but its UI can go fuck itself).
@@yasser9399 It's gonna be a wild ride...
Damn, the highest damage multiplier I've gotten is 500%. Buff management is pretty important, I hadn't really put much thought on that. Teach is a discount Ashera with a similar effect when you use him in a chain attack, instead of getting a guaranteed 200 TP, you get 150, so for those not far enough along to get Ashera you can use Teach.
I thought that was Isurd and Teach gives the rest of the party plus 10 TP.
Thats Isurd
I think the highest i’ve gotten was either 850% or 1050% but I don’t remember which one really.
I learned a few very useful tips from watching the video! Thanks for making a guide to this.
just wanted to say, happy these videoes exist. gonna check em when i hit post game since this game is actually good at explaining stuff for the normal playthrough
Thanks for this, I was very disappointed in my first few chain attacks. I didn’t know about a lot of these mechanics. Like getting bravo’s and amazing to get more units back. I must have not payed attention well enough when it was introduced
Best part about watching these while painstakingly waiting for my game to arrive is that ill be able to enjoy the combat quickly and focus on the godtier story
Thanks so much for this guide. Didnt realise how much i misunderstood how it works this time around till watching.
New to the channel, thanks for the great guide!
Enel coming in clutch again with an amazing guide!
Maybe I just haven't gotten used to XC3 yet, but I kind of miss shattering orbs during chain attacks in XC2. Also, maybe I haven't played enough XC3 yet, but I kinda miss all the different blades we could use. But maybe there are still a lot of different play styles depending on the classes we choose.
Bruh i never could've thought about the power charge strat even if i don't have signifer yet (the silhouettes on the class menu spoil the weapons anyway lol). Glad to see my suspicions of Ashera being broken for chain attacks confirmed even further
Can't wait for the speedruns with all this RNG :)
Great in-depth explanation - looking forward to the inevitable Hero tier lists
This is an incredibly indepth and helpful video
I assume, I'm still speedrunning Xenoblade 1 before 3
I love the new chain attack system, it's so damn satisfying.
Best thumbnail yet tho
Amazing guide! Thank you 😊 🙏🏽
Glad I watched this to get a better understanding of chain attacks. As usual, I have to look online to make sure I know what I’m doing because half the time I do not know what I’m doing.
I hope you can do a generalized guide on classes soon. For instance, Zeon's class does more damage when "awakened", and I know what the awakened status is, but not how to get it on Zeon's class if I want to change the talent art on Noah. Just general stuff like that.
Chain attack in xc3 feels like doing mathematic mad things and i love it so much
Thank you! You answered all my questions
Let's gooo Enel we're back dude 😎
I've been having good results with Riku and Manana in chain attacks. Their ability to boost the next character's tp is great, plus their order giving the party tp is just useful. I can crank out amazings like they're nothing with them.
Segiri seems good too. I can an amazing rating of over 600 and total dmg bonus of 1441 with her. Ashera is easier tho but depending on team segiri is bonkers with constant amazing except 1st round. I like Fiona too and she gives an extra round.
Great tips and ideas like the power charge thanks.
I would love to see another video doing chain attacks with even bigger numbers. Thanks for the video guide!
Gotta close my eyes and type “enel xenoblade 3” in the CZcams search bar since on previous games I was spoiled by other channels and video suggestions trying to learn Xeno2 combat, not making that mistake again lmaoo
Enel holding it down for us appreciate you bro
It's important to note that you must control the level 3 interlinking characters to activate the special chain attack, otherwise you just get a normal chain attack.
I'm actually a little surprised Fiona doesn't get a mention. Maybe it's because she's a bit inconsistent in that you only get unlucky and end up with 4 orders instead of the 6 that you'd want to get with her.
8:07 I feel called out
Great video, I'll probably watch all the new ones in a few days (after finishing the game)
This was very useful. thank you
my brother in christ, the game has been out for a day
I haven't figured out the chain attack perfectly yet but once I realized why certain aspects worked the way they did I had a great "aha!" moment that I haven't felt in a loooong time. It was that satisfaction of suddenly understanding how a math formula or Zelda puzzle works. So much fun!
Awesome guide, best teach Enel!
I was wondering why I kept getting stuck at 99%! That clears up a lot of stuff, and now I'll be able to better plan. Thanks for the guide. :)
Thanks for this. I initially was pretty underwhelmed by the chain attack system, as all I thought there was to it was:
Use attacker first always -> use big numbers that won't go past 100% -> use healer to cap at 99% -> finish with whatever you have left -> repeat exactly the same every time
I guess I should have known after casually playing the other two main entries that if a system seems that simple and boring it means that 1.) I just didn't understand it fully and should look up a CZcams video, and 2.) There are probably other mechanics that fit into the system which I don't have access to yet.
Appreciate it!
How to know if that particular big numbers won’t go past 100%?
Dude probably hasn’t slept since the game came out
Awesome video! Thanks for the info! Video ideas: Early and Mid-game team comps, best gems and accessories to slot, best class master arts and skills to go after. 👍
King
I was just searching for this
Use medics to get the chain combo close to 99% and then go all out with the high chain combo units.
I personally rank this game's combat as top of the main three because it feels like you have much more control over the fight even though the other two have fun specialized mechanics
Obviously ill have to get more of a hang over it tho but its enjoyable
I miss the elemental stuff from 2, but this does feel clean. I agree with you there.
@@jacobmitchell2085 yeah, in to they made it feel like everything you did build up to the chain attack, noch its jsut about filling that meater
@@theonesithtorulethemall I loved that build up feeling being rewarded but I'd only rank it below 3s because of the other aspects that feel out of your control which comes primarily from your other party member's actions
I haven’t advanced very far yet, but are you eventually able to cancel arts into arts like in XB2?
@@thekingofspeed8960 I am not sure yet either. I'm level 37 and not yet, but Enel said in one of the vids that you eventually get the capability to do so. I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks for Chain Attack Guide!
Thanks!!! I’m loving this game
Idk about 1 and X, but the fun of 2 and 3 is to see how far you can do with the multitude of attacks and combos. So far it's not as fun yet, but I just know once I unlock more options the damage will get crazy, and pleases my dopamine receptors.
You can make X's not a chain attack infinite. With the right defensive setup you can literally solo pretty much anything with weak weapons and skills, as your damage will eventually scale to millions anyway.
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx i think hes saying he didnt play 1 and x
@@Ayeato um, yes. Kinda figured that. Hence why i mentioned X's chain attack thing being infinite - supplying knowledge he didn't know...
Kinda agree with him, nice to see them fat numbers.
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx ah my bad I thought you understood his comment as him saying 1 and x's chain attack equivalent was unfun.
@@Ayeato no, seemed to me he started by saying he 'didn't know' about 1 and x, but talked about how fun it was in 2 and 3.
At no point did he seem to shit on one or x, so i didn't jump to a conclusion that he meant their system ill, just 'wasn't talking about them'.
I merely followed up with 'x is pretty fun too'.
I have a question: sometimes when a character gets 'reactivated' they'll have a blue triangle mark in the bottom right of their icon. What does this signify?
You can see this happen at 7:17 in the video, it is denoting that the unit was targeted by the tank role bonus of returning the party member with the highest TP.
Thanks this has been a big help.
Looking forward to all your guides to get all characters to max lv and such mister enel